Portal Can Tho

Visiting Can Tho

Can Tho City’s Nice Dish: Ba Khía Rang Me (Freshwater Crabs Cooked with Tamarind Sauce)

If you have an opportunity to visit Can Tho City, you should save time to go Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Thoi Binh Ward, Ninh Kieu District to enjoy many unique delicacies from Ba Khia cooked in various ways such as boiling, frying, steaming… This street is also called "Ba Khia Street" by the locals!

Mit Nai in Can Tho is worth an exploration

Mit Nai-Dan Tien area in Can Tho City includes many historical and cultural relics such as Mit Nai Market, Dan Tien Pagoda and Thay Cau Garden.

Excursion to Phong Dien Garden, Can Tho City (part 2)

Here, it is very quiet in the early morning. For morning exercise, we walk along Ong De Rivulet. The further we go, the windier the road is. It closely follows the route of the rivulet. The scenery is very peaceful. Everyone seems to have a lot of work to care for their garden, so few people linger to look at the scenery like us. so desolate that few people loitering on the road. After breakfast with eggs, coffee, tea and a cup of hot fragrant cocoa, we rent bicycles to explore the village and go to the second homestay – Mr. Ba Xinh’s house.

Excursion to Phong Dien Garden, Can Tho City (part 1)

Many visitors to Can Tho City, often visit Cai Rang floating markets, Phong Dien and return to air-conditioned hotels in town, Can Tho City, commonly known as The Capital City of the West. Usually they spend a night in a rather dry and cool bedroom there without knowing about an exciting alternative available for them: home stay tourism, where visitors stay, live and work together with the locals to learn more about the home culture here. It is fascinating to have a walk around the isles and live in the countryside typical of the rural southern delta.

Coming to Can Tho City to enjoying Phong Dien Cocoa

Phong Dien District is famous for its floating market, luxuriant orchards laden with all kinds of fruit, such as Ha Chau mulberries, oranges, tangerines, star apples, mangosteens, green apples, guavas ....

Hotpot of Linh (Cirrhinus jullieni) Fish and Điên Điển (Sesbania Sesban) Flowers

It goes without saying that Linh Fish and Dien Dien flowers are typical features of the Western South during the flood season. Westerners have been proud of the abundant produce from the nature, especially the dish called Lẩu cá linh hoa điên điển (Hotpot of C.jullieni Fish and Sesbania Sesban Flowers). To prepare a delicious hotpot, you should choose very fresh Linh Fish, then gut them thoroughly, clean and put them in a little for drainage. After that, the fish will be marinated with garlic, pepper, sugar and salt for about 10 minutes.

Flourishing Phong Dien

Phong Dien has long been renowned as a bustling trading place of rural residents. In recent years, Phong Dien District is constantly evolving to become a particular district for eco-tourism of Can Tho.

Phong Dien Fine Rice Vermicelli

Whenever you come to Can Tho City and have a chance to visit Phong Dien District full of fruit laden orchards, enjoying a 1-day picnic tour to try working as local farmers doing harvest activities such as vegetable gardening, boating and fishing, you should not miss Gardener Minh Canh’s house to enjoy fine rice vermicelli with roast pork prepared by himself.

Moc Quan Nguyen Trong Quyen - A Typical Vietnamese Hero

Moc Quan’s real name is Nguyen Trong Quyen, the great playwright who founded the school of Cai Luong Tuong Tau (Traditional Music and Classical Drama) and was honored Hau to Cai luong (Cai Luong’s Father).

Luu Huu Phuoc - A Typical Vietnamese Hero

Luu Huu Phuoc was born on September 12th 1921 in a Confucian family in O Mon – Can Tho. At the age of 11, he finished elementary school. At the age of 16, after he finished junior high school, he continued his learning in Sai Gon. In two years 1940 - 1941, Luu Huu Phuoc together with Southern students made a pilgrimage to the sacred sites of the country such as Hung Temple, Tran Hung Dao Temple, Thanh Giong Temple, Bach Dang River , ... These places inspired so much emotions about the country and the pride of the national heroic spirit in him.

Chau Van Liem – A Typical Vietnamese Hero

Bui Huu Nghia - A Typical Vietnamese Hero

Well-known Com Ruou (Fermented Glutinous Rice Balls) in Thot Not

After we cross Thot Not Bridge, turn left and go for approximately 6 kilometers, we arrive at Trung Thanh Commune. Here almost all local people can show us how to go to the commune producing fermented glutinous rice balls. Following the instructions of the local people, we go more than a kilometer to Ba Dang Rivulet, along which there are 80-90 households making Com Ruou. This area is in Thanh Phuoc Village and Thanh Phuoc 2 Village of the edge of Thot Not District (Can Tho City). Ms. Huynh Thi Diem, Vice-Chair woman of Trung Thanh Women's Association, says, "Here, two out of every three households earn their living by making Com Ruou.

The flower village is located in An Binh Commune and has a history of more than half a century. It usually becomes vibrant and bustle in many days before Tet holidays.

Knitting Portable Bamboo Traps (Lọp) at Thoi Long Commune

At Thoi Long Commune (O Mon - Can Tho) there is a trade of knitting portable bamboo traps for catching tiny shrimp (instrument for catching tiny shrimps). This trade is considered as an indispensible means of earning a living for thousands of farmers living in flood areas in the Mekong Delta in the yearly flood season. The commune of 300 households becomes bustling with knitting activity from May to September of the lunar year. Visitors to this place will witness how subtle and meticulous workers are in each step from making the brim, splitting bamboo splints, braided cuttings, weaving frame to fastening the body part and assembling them into a complete trap.

Cai Rang, Ba Lang, Vam Xang, Phong Dien

If you love me, give me money; don’t give me rice, which you will be laughed at by our neighbors

The Mekong Delta’s Taste in Hủ tiếu hấp - Steamed Rice Noodle

The Mekong Delta’s cuisine is famous for its rich and diverse culinary culture. Such dishes like pork-stuffed fried cake, pancake, rice noodles in fermented fish soup, fish noodle soup and so on are familiar to the South westerners’ and they have long been favored by people in Saigon and all over the world.

Pancakes of Cái Sơn – Hàng Bàng

The name of Cái Sơn – Hàng Bàng, according to many people, this area has Cai Son small irrigation canal next to large malabar almond trees so this area has that name. Now, the small irrigation canal was quite large but large malabar almond trees is no longer appeared, however delicious pancakes and miniature fried phancakes remain as before.

Experience rustic homestay in Can Tho

Homestay is a form of tourism that allows visitors to rent a room from a local family to learn more about the local lifestyle as well as improve language ability and enjoy a cultural exchange.

Back to nature in Phong Dien

Phong Dien District, considered the green lung of Can Tho City, is famous for Gian Gua relic site and Cot Cau and Da Noi ponds.